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Sight and Sound Experience

Welcome to a world where you can feel sound and hear light! In the Sight and Sound Experience, you’ll get moving and make some noise.

See how sound waves move at Visible Vibrations.

Become a superstar DJ at the Beat Machine.

Pop bubbles, play a tune and more on our Interactive Video Floor.

See how many real musical instruments you can name in our towering musical instrument sculpture.

Create a masterpiece of light at the Light Paint Box.

Pose and see yourself from all angles at Freeze Frame 360.

Art Jam

As you enter this acoustically enclosed exhibit, you're greeted by five sculptures that respond to your touch in a surprising way - they play music. Thanks to some super smart software in these funky instruments, even non-musicians will sound like pros. We even installed sensors in the room that react to sound frequencies to trigger an accompanying light show. Rock on, dude.

DJ Voice Match

Visitors experiment by speaking into a microphone and trying to match the visual display of sound frequencies their voice makes with that of professional radio DJs, like Bosh & Cory from Connecticut's own Country 92.5. You can also sing into a microphone and create a laser lightshow that graphically depicts waveforms made by the acoustic energy of your voice.

Light Paint Box

Visitors play with light, color and sound using their gestures and movements, both individually and collectively, to create unique riffs made up of sounds and rhythms from different musical genres - hip hop, rap, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, heavy metal and more. Out of respect for our older visitors (a.k.a. parents), no moshing please.

What's The Frequency?

Ever wondered how certain instruments ended up with their shape? Wonder no more, Herr Beethoven. In this exhibit, you'll sprinkle sand on two differently shaped metal plates (one is violin-shaped) and start a motor that vibrates the plates. Watch how the patterns of sand differ and how they change when vibrated at different frequencies. This basic technique is used in real life to achieve the optimum sound in musical instruments.